Fore to arrive today

KATHMANDU: US Under Secretary of State for Management, Henrietta H Fore, will visit Nepal on March 9 and 10, according to the American Centre here. Fore is the most senior administration official to visit Nepal since Jana Aandolan II. Fore is scheduled to meet Prime Minister GP Koirala. She will meet politicians, officials, businessmen, and women alumni of US exchange programmes. — HNS

Ex-IGP gets clean chit

KATHMANDU: The Special Court on Thursday issued a clean chit to former Inspector General of Police, Achyut Krishna Kharel, whom the CIAA had accused of accumulating property through illegal means. The bench also quashed the chargesheet filed by the CIAA on August 13, 2004. The CIAA chargesheet had accused Kharel of accumulating Rs 42 million illegally during service in police. — HNS

Panel formed

KATHMANDU: A 46-member high-level committee headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs KP Sharma Oli has been formed to celebrate the golden jubilee of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and Sri Lanka. — RSS

Yadav’s appeal

KATHMANDU: Deputy Speaker of the Legislature-Parliament Chitra Lekha Yadav has said political sector should be made clean as it is the backbone for development of the country. At a programme on “Women’s Role in Building a New Nepal”, organised here on Thursday by the Brahma Kumari Rajyog Sewa Kendra, Yadav said the task of building a new Nepal would be facilitated only when women are represented while restructuring the state. — RSS

EC proposes draft

KATHMANDU: The Election Commission has proposed the draft of Constituent Assembly Member Election Act-2063 BS to the Nepal government on Thursday. The Commission held various level consultations with all political parties which represent legislature-parliament other sides of the society and experts in connection of preparing this draft. — RSS

OHCHR team’s visit

SIRAHA: A three-member team of the OHCHR regional office in Biratnagar arrived here on Thursday on an inspection of Siraha district. Led by chief of OHCHR Biratnagar office Soniya, the team sought information about the Madhes agitation and the losses caused during the agitation, Siraha CDO Shashishekhar Shrestha said, adding that Soniya held discussions on various issues, including preparations for the CA poll, provision of security, Maoist activities and activities of the JTMM. — HNS

Campus chief quits

BIRGUNJ: Chief of the Birgunj Nursing Campus Shakuntala Aryal resigned on Thursday over the delay in publishing the result of certificate-level entrance examination. She submitted the resignation to the dean of the faculty of the Tribhuvan University. Demanding that results of the examination be published, the NSU has padlocked offices of campus administration and campus chief. The exam was held on February 24. — HNS

Maoists seize buses

TANAHUN: Passengers faced difficulties after Maoists shooed them away and seized over 137 buses plying on different routes in Tanahun district on Thursday. The Maoists seized the buses to ferry cadres and people to a mass meet organised in Pokhara. Locals said the Maoists also took control of buses coming from Lamjung and Gorkha and took them to Pokhara. The Maoists captured 53 buses plying on the Damauli-Anbhukhirani route and 84 buses plying on the Damauli-Pokhara route, transport entrepreneurs said. The Maoists claimed they took the vehicles without exerting any pressure on entrepreneurs. — HNS

21 SLC centres in Ilam

Ilam: The Ilam District Education Office (DEO) has set up 21 SLC exam centres in the district for SLC examinations scheduled to begin from April 4. While 19 exam centres have been established outside the district headquarters of Ilam, two SLC examination centres have been fixed at the Adarsha Higher Secondary School at the Ilam headquarters. Altogether 6,485 SLC examinees, including 4963 regular and 1522 exempted, from 63 schools of the district will be appearing in the SLC exams this year, the District Education Office said. — HNS

Property looted

GAUR: An armed group reportedly broke into the house of Prabin Kumar Paal of Kamalpatti Tol and looted goods worth Rs 100,000 from the house. The group made away with ornaments, clothes and cash. — RSS